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In August and September 2010, Joseph Hartman returned to the Northern Ontario Aboriginal settlements of Heron Bay (population 480) and Collins (population 60) for the first time since he was an infant. Preceding and immediately following his birth, his parents lived in Collins, then Heron Bay, then Collins again. There his mother was a school teacher and his father, a young artist, ingrained events and personalities that would reappear in his paintings over the next decade.
These years passed into family lore as a special time; however Hartman had no recollection of either village other than through stories and photo albums. Over a period of three weeks, he photographed intently while reintroducing himself to places and people that he felt he already knew in some way. In his most personal body of work, Joseph Hartman explores pre-concrete memory, inquiring how it is imagined and invented.
Hartman states, “The Collins and Heron Bay series portrays two small native communities in which we lived in when I was one and two years of age. I felt unsure whether the images in my mind's eye of those early years were accurate or concocted over time. Thirty years later, I returned and photographed these places, intertwining my fabricated memories with the reality of what was there.”
Ben Portis, Curator
These years passed into family lore as a special time; however Hartman had no recollection of either village other than through stories and photo albums. Over a period of three weeks, he photographed intently while reintroducing himself to places and people that he felt he already knew in some way. In his most personal body of work, Joseph Hartman explores pre-concrete memory, inquiring how it is imagined and invented.
Hartman states, “The Collins and Heron Bay series portrays two small native communities in which we lived in when I was one and two years of age. I felt unsure whether the images in my mind's eye of those early years were accurate or concocted over time. Thirty years later, I returned and photographed these places, intertwining my fabricated memories with the reality of what was there.”
Ben Portis, Curator
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Libros de arte y fotografía
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Características: Apaisado grande, 33×28 cm
N.º de páginas: 20 - Fecha de publicación: nov. 27, 2012
- Idioma English
- Palabras clave Joseph Hartman, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Ben Portis, Return
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